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Intel 750 1.2TB PCI-E SSD

Hard Drive

Intel has been a reliable mainstay of our SSD line here at Puget Systems for many years, and their new DC 750 series are among the first NVM Express based SSDs aimed at consumer and workstation systems rather than servers. The direct PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection these drives use allows for speeds far higher than the traditional SATA interface, and the DC 750 series is geared for the fastest performance. They can reach 2,400 MB/s maximum read speeds and 1,200 MB/s for writes. Another strength of these drives is in IOPS: up to 440,000 IOPS for random reads and 290,000 IOPS for writes.

Please note that these drives require a PCI-E 3.0 slot of x4 size or larger. Using an older PCI-E 2.0 slot reduces both read and write performance, with as much as a 40% drop in maximum read speeds.

William George (Puget Labs) Says:These drives are *amazingly* fast, but note that they need PCI-Express 3.0 in order to run at full speed. They also can only be used as boot drives on modern chipsets, like Z97 and X99. I would love to use one on my Z87 at home, but am out of luck (unless I wanted to just have it as a secondary drive).

Jeff Stubbers (Mr. Customer Service) Says:This is a very fast drive to have in your system, an ideal solution for your Primary drive in a PCI-E 3.0 slot. These drives do take a little longer to boot into the OS, but once in the OS are 3x-4x faster than standard 2.5" SSDs. Intel lists this drive on their site as having a 5-year limited warranty: http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/ssd-750/sb/CS-035542.htm

John D. (Senior Production Technician) Says:The Intel 750 PCI-E SSDs offer astonishing performance from a trusted brand. They do take up an expansion slot and the price isn't cheap, but for unparalleled speed, this is it.

Model: Intel SSDPEDMW012T4X1

Specifications:

Capacity

1200 GB

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Form Factor

1/2 Height PCIe

Endurance (TBW)

219 TB

Performance

Sequential Read

2400 MB/s

Sequential Write

1200 MB/s

Random 4KB Read

440000 IOPS

Random 4KB Write

290000 IOPS

Please note that using a PCI-E 3.0 x4 slot is required to achieve full performance. In our testing we have seen up to a 4% drop in write performance and a 40% drop in read performance by using PCI-E 2.0 x4 instead of PCI-E 3.0 x4.